Word: guttoveggio
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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...Great Reader. Paul Creston's real name is Joseph Guttoveggio. He was born on Manhattan's lower East Side. When he was eight, his father thought Joseph had the makings of a concert pianist, bought him an old piano for $10. Joseph never became a top-flight pianist, but for ten years he practiced like mad, spent his spare time composing little piano pieces...
...keynote of Joseph Guttoveggio's career has been a plodding thoroughness. When, as a child, he became catcher of the 17th Street baseball team, he got McGraw's book on baseball from the library and boned up for weeks on curves and knuckle balls. His formal education ended with his second year in high school, but he began haunting the New York Public Library. A book on hypnotism made him a successful practitioner on friends and neighbors. He ploughed through such subjects as cryptography, graphology, occultism, oriental philosophy, esthetics, acoustics. A book on dietetics converted him temporarily into...
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